Loose-leaf check and binder assembly



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Patented Jan. 29, 1952 LOOSE-LEAF CHECK AND BINDER ASSEMBLY Frank Kautzman and Junior A. B. Peak, Salt Lake City, Utah; said Peak assignor to said Kautzman Application May 16, 1945, Serial No. 594,022

1 Claim. 1

The present invention relates to special covers and binders such as are used as holders for foldable pocket-type check books and has more particular reference to a novel loose-leaf holding and anchoring device therefor.

More specifically, the invention pertains to a folding 'typeleather, or equivalent. suitably decorated binder equipped on its interior with a socalled stub pocket, the latter being used, in the instantsituation, as a receptacle for an especially constructed metal or equivalent insert, said insert being'so constructed as to provide anchoring hooks designed to coact with apertured check stubs, whereby to conveniently hold the checks in readiness for use in said binder.

In carrying out the principles of the invention, we contemplate the use of a special sheet material fixture which is used as the insert, this to slip into the stub pocket of a more or less standard leather or equivalent binder, said insert, as before implied, having hooks, and the hooks being adapted toslip through slots in the check stubs, and said hooks being movable to open and closed positions to facilitate insertion of the check book, as a unit, and removal of the stubs when another book is to be brought into use.

In reducing to practice the principles of the invention, as will be hereinafter better appreciated, we have in mind the use of an insert or fixture characterized by a plate which fits snugly and satisfactorily into the regular stub pocket in the binder, said plate having one end protruding beyond the stub pocket and fashioned into a keeper flange, the bill portions of the hooks on theibcdy of the plate coacting with said flange, and that portion of the plate adjacent said flange serving as a ledge for effectively basing and holdins-1 h? unched stubs in place.

Qther "features and advantages will become more readily apparent from the following description' and the accompanying illustrative drawings.

In-tlie drawings, wherein like numerals are employed to designate like parts throughout the views:

Figure l is a fragmentary plan view of a conventional binder, the insert or fixture which is fitted into the stub pocket, and a check-book at- Figure 4 is a bottom plan view of the same;

Figure 5 is an edge view of Figure 3; and

Figure 6 is a section on the line 6-6 of Figure 3.

Reference is had first to Figure 1, wherein the check-book is denoted by the reference character A. This comprises the regular checks B and stubs C joined by a customary score line. The studs in the present instance are provided with rectangular holes D which are punched therein in order to adapt them to use in connection with the special insert or fixture. The leather binder, which is also a conventional article, is denoted by the letter E and includes a suitable closing flap F with snap fastener means G. Then, as brought out in Figure 2, there is on the interior of this binder a leather pocket H which, under ordinary circumstances, is adapted to receive the regular foldable back on a, conventional or standard check-book (not shown). The only thing new so far is the fact that the stubs C are provided with punched holes D to accommodate the novel fixture or insert 24.

Said insert 24 comprises a plate 25 of suitable shape and size having a substantially U-shaped slot struck-out around its marginal edge or inwardly of the marginal edge, as indicated at 26, this defining a bendable panel 21 which flexes and hinges on the line 28. This panel has tongues struck-out, as at 29, and the outer ends of the tongues are bent upon themselves, as at 30, to define the retaining hooks 3|. These hooks coact with the ledge 32 and the associated upstanding lip or flange 33. This is a stamped, one-piece type of insert or holder. The bendable panel 21 is normally in the so-called closed position depicted in Figures 3, 4 and 5. When it is necessary to attach the slotted check stubs to the hooks 3|, it is necessary, of course, to place the finger against the panel and press it to the open position shown in Figure 6. When the panel is released it springs back to the closed position already described.

The various phases of the invention are characterized by the utmost in simplicity and efliciency. It is believed that by thus simply manufacturing checks with the stubs punched out, as at D, then manufacturing either of the inserts 24 and placing same in the stock-type leather binder E, a unique and satisfactory assemblage of parts, forming a highly useful pocket-type check-book is had.

We claim:

As a new article of manufacture, an insert for a stub pocket in a check book binder, said insert comprising :a, substantially flat plate provided at one end only with a laterally directed guard flange, the major central portion of said plate being struck-out to provide aresilient panel, the inherent resiliency in said panel serving to maintain the latter in a plane with the body portion of saidip late, the free end of said panel being disposed in spaced parallelism to said flange and defining between itself and the flange a hook contacting ledge, a. plurality of tongues struckout from said panel'and bent upon thernselvs to provide complemental hooks, the bill portions of said hooks normally resting on said ledge in con tact with the inner adjacent surface of said flange.

FRANK KAUTZMAN,

JUNIOR A. B. PEAK.

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